The ACA Foundation, created by the late Antoni Caimari, has been organizing these contemporary music gatherings for 43 years with the notable presence, since 2020, of electroacoustic music.
The XLIII International Meeting of Composers will be held from October 1 to December 23, 2022, programming 11 concerts with the participation of 21 artists. Of the 37 composers that will be performed, there will be 8 absolute premieres and 2 commissions from the Festival. Jean-Pierre Dupuy will be in charge of the artistic direction, Medín Peirón of the electroacoustic direction and Toni Rian as artistic coordinator.
XLIII International Composers Meeting Program:
October 1st. 7:00 p.m. Crestatx Oratory. Sa Pobla
October 2nd. 7:00 p.m. Convent de Sant Francesc de Paula. Campos
Z-Quartett & Joan Jordi Oliver
Z-Quartett: Grace Macdonald, Petra Eszter Tóth, Robert Burton, Christian Kunzy (saxophones). Joan Jordi Oliver (composition, synthesizer and electronics)
Program: Readings on Des Prés
Composition for saxophone quartet, synthesizer and electronics, by Joan Jordi Oliver
New version of Misere mei Deus, by Josquin Des Prés
October 22. 7:00 p.m. Piano room of the Fundació ACA. buger
Joan Izquierdo, bec flutes
Dolce ed acerbo
(music for solo flute)
Program:
Syrinx (1913), by Claude Debussy
Density 21.5 (1936), by Edgar Varèse
Gesti (1966), by Luciano Berio
Black intention (1975), directed by Maki Ishii
Charavgi (1994), directed by Calliope Tsoupaki
Estreno nueva obra (2022), by Montserrat Lladó
Huitzil (1989), by Gabriela Ortiz
November 5th. 7:00 p.m. Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation. Palma
Vent quintet of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Albert Mora (flute), César Altur (oboe), Víctor de la Rosa (clarinet), Marc García (horn), Maria José Rielo (bassoon)
Program:
Quintet by Robert Gerhard
Quintett à vents (world premiere), by Alain Fourchotte
House (commissioned by the festival), by Jesús González
Six Bagatellen by György Ligeti
November 19th. 7:00 p.m. Sala del piano de la Fundació ACA. Buger
Rafael Yebra, saxophonist
(In the concert he uses four saxophones: sopranino, soprano, alto and baritone)
Program:
Tre studi (sopranino saxophone version), by Giacinto Scelsi
Color de invierno (soprano saxophone, inspired by texts by Rafael Santos Barba, by Alicia Díaz de la Fuente
Arierra (sopranino saxophone), by Alberto Posadas
Silenci (for soprano and alto saxophone) with poem, by Laura de les Heras Alonso
Somaniar és bé per fer (Històries de flors (alto saxophone), by Maties Far
Rumor de fred II (baritone saxophone), by Jacobo Gaspar
November 26. 7:00 p.m. Sala del piano de la Fundació ACA. Buger
Esteban Belinchón, cello
Program:
Music for cello with one or more amplified vases (1993), by Alvin Lucier
Pression (1970), by Helmuth Lachenmann
Glissées (1970), by Isang Yun
Cellogram (1971), by James Tenney
Small Chant (2012), directed by Toshio Hosokawa
Senza Vento (2020), by Salvatore Sciarrino
December 3. 7:00 p.m. Sala del piano de la Fundació ACA. Buger
Tribute to Xavier Carbonell i Castells (1952-2022)
Lecture on the orchestral work of Xavier Carbonell: Fenomenologia de la creació metafísica del so, by Agustí Aguiló Bordoy
Concert program:
7 Tributes to the piano (1977). Piano: Agustí Aguiló Orfila
Premiere: ABYSSUS (1995) (for solo guitar). Guitar: Josep Sbert Casasayas
Peqer. Piano: Tomeu Moll-Mas
Espores (audiovisual projection of the work of the XXVIII International Meeting of Composers 2002 at the Teatre Principal de Palma). Orquestra Simfònica Illes Balears. Director: Agustí Aguiló Bordoy
December 10. 7:00 p.m. Oratori de Crestatx. Sa Pobla
María José Rangel Gómez (flute) and Xavier Gelabert (electronics)
Program: World premiere commissioned by the Festival
Earendel for solo and electronic flute, by Xavier Gelabert
December 17 and 18. Sala de piano - Fundació ACA. Buger
Encontres Electroacústics
Works by: Antoni Caimari, Vincent Laubeuf, Mercè Capdevila, Eduardo Polonio, José Manuel Berenguer, Medín Peirón and Sophie Delafontaine
December 23th. 8:15 p.m. Basílica de Sant Francesc. Palma
Raúl Prieto Ramírez, organist
Program:
Volumina, by György Sándor Ligeti (1923-2006)
Deuxieme Fantasie, by Jehan Alain (1911-1940)
Prélude et danse fuguée (1964), by Gaston Litaize (1909-1991)
L'Ascension (1933), by Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Légende Op. 51 No. 1 (1951), by Samuel Ducommun (1914-1987)
Aria Variata (from his four organ works), by Heinz Wherle (1921-2012)
Toccata post Te Deum, by Juan Maria Thomàs i Sabater (1896-1966)
